I like that last paragraph. I agree with you. Just a dab'l do ya.

hey nice post-- as an ex-vegan, ex-100% Raw Foodist, now what some are calling "flexitarian" which (for me) means mostly veggie, but the ocasional meal with carnivores, (parents, business associates et cetera, that now i eat flesh)-- and somehow they feel less self conscious..

but what i try to do is invite people over to my place and serve them there... near our home there's an organic food market and there are farmers there selling elk steak and elk saussage. Elk grazes on alfalfa and other grasses... pesticide/antibiotic free, eats way less resources than a cow, (has way less fat too) and is tasty! if cow steak/hamburger uses 1 gallon of gas then these must use about 1/8 or 1/4.. so as an alternative, if you're going to eat meat, whyt not a stress-free elk than at tortured cow?

Lee and Fanatic, thanks for the comments. Lee, elk you say? Never tried it, but I wouldn't be averse to trying it. I wonder if I can get elk anywhere near here... hmmmm.

Thanks!

Flexitarian - finally a word that describes me!

Elk is good meat - as an 18th century re-enactor I occasionally get to sample unusual meats that hunters bring to the reenactments. Back when I couldn't buy pork because all I could find was factory-farmed I looked forward to the wild boar sausage that one fella brought with him. But I don't think we can get elk around here. Venison if we're lucky.

Thanks for participating in the Carnival and while I appreciate the introspection behind your article I have to speak to a couple of errors in logic.

Of 6.8 Billion people on earth less than 1/3 eat meat of any sort on a daily basis - they can't afford it only in the west has meat become a daily "fix."

Meat is not in fact essential to any human physiological processes, enzymes are the essential component and these are found in many natural sources including meat however fruit and vegetable are a far richer source of natural enzymes - we are omnivores which means literally we can eat and survive well on almost any diet, accept the Atkins Diet of course.

Finally trusting that your steak had a reasonably "happy" life B4 it was slaughtered for your plate is for your heart not the animals. Happy is a human emotion. An animal left to its own devices is content to eat, sleep, move, procreate and die naturally in its own environment and among its own kind - a long way from what they are allowed by the factory farm system, organic or not.

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